Assessment of factors affecting disbursement of public funds for rural road projects in Kenya – a case study of Nakuru County

Abstract

Economic development of any country depends mainly on its infrastructure. Government of Kenya’s Vision 2030 aspires for the country to be firmly interconnected through a network of roads, railways, ports, airports, water and sanitation facilities, and telecommunications. Improvement of infrastructure is seen as fundamental to the growth of the identified driving sectors of the economy. In Kenya, road networks in the rural areas have greatly hampered the economic growth due to inaccessibility. Several development partners and more so, the Kenyan government has initiated several projects to improve this situation. One way of doing this has been allocation of funds towards improvement of roads in rural areas. Despite the heavy investment in this initiative the government still faces a number of challenges in relation to the development.